St. Alphonzo wrote:Damn, my original OT Laserdisc box set will be worth diddly squat now.

you've got one of those too?!awesome!

at first i was like "yessssss!"but now, thanks to your financial wit, St. A, im pissed.

id like to be the first to put my ass and reputation on the line and call bullshit on this. i dont think its gonna happen. i could be wrong, and if so, well, lucas has positioned himself squarely in the way of another 50 bucks from me. goddamnit.

Although it would be nice to not have to change discs three times during each movie...

St. Alphonzo wrote:Damn, my original OT Laserdisc box set will be worth diddly squat now.

you've got one of those too?!
awesome!

at first i was like "yessssss!"
but now, thanks to your financial wit, St. A, im pissed.

id like to be the first to put my ass and reputation on the line and call bullshit on this. i dont think its gonna happen. i could be wrong, and if so, well, lucas has positioned himself squarely in the way of another 50 bucks from me. goddamnit.

I seem to remember in a talkback a long time ago (internet time months can be years) someone sayin that Lucas was going to wait for the format war to get started, dump the OT untouched on standard dvd, then start releasing everything all over again on blueray/hddvd. I hope this is the start because i have bitched to no end about not having the OT on dvd to my friends. Still, sounds to good to be real.

In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.

I doubt that is the main reason. Sure diehards will buy it but the general audience who didn't care that he changed them in the first place and who already own the current boxset will not be impressed. I think the hardcore fans make up a small percentage of the dvd buying market.

Hopefully, this means we'll also get some real work done on the OT films, like new scenes involving the Senate, Bail Organa, Palpatine, Alderann and Coruscant in general in this or future releases. Now that Lucas is letting the purists get what they want, he can get around to inserting what he wants into his movies without criticism.

Now, if only Hideo Kojima would give into fan pressure and release Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake as it originially appeared on the MSX console with Sean Connery as Big Boss, Michael Madson/Mel Gibson as Snake and Richard Crenna as Colonel Campbell...

I will be one of the douches who goes out and buys this bloody thing.
I have a copy of the OT in original format burnt on DVD, (not to mention the VHS boxset I have), but I would still want an official copy.
Nostalgia more than anything....

I'm excited. The one thing is - will it be cleaned up a la the 2004 DVD editions? Like the prints cleaned and all that? Cos while I'm all for the original edits of the movies, I want the transfer to look pretty too.

Tubbs Tattsyrup wrote:I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

This'll be the Dolby edition... two months after you buy it, Lucas will announce the THX edition will be coming out in Summer, 2007.

I really don't see that. Compare the avalanche of VHS versions from the 80's to the handful of versions since the 95 THX vhs boxset. If they were that interested they could have been pumping out DVD versions for the last decade.

Eric G wrote:I will be one of the douches who goes out and buys this bloody thing. I have a copy of the OT in original format burnt on DVD, (not to mention the VHS boxset I have), but I would still want an official copy.Nostalgia more than anything....

I'm excited. The one thing is - will it be cleaned up a la the 2004 DVD editions? Like the prints cleaned and all that? Cos while I'm all for the original edits of the movies, I want the transfer to look pretty too.

Tubbs Tattsyrup wrote:I guess there's nostalgia value in a mono soundtrack and dirty prints, but I mean, it's fucking Star Wars. You want it to look and sound good.

This'll be the Dolby edition... two months after you buy it, Lucas will announce the THX edition will be coming out in Summer, 2007.

I really don't see that. Compare the avalanche of VHS versions from the 80's to the handful of versions since the 95 THX vhs boxset. If they were that interested they could have been pumping out DVD versions for the last decade.

In 2007 it will be the high-definition version that Lucas will release.

It's just a matter of time before Lucas makes three more SW movies.
Call me crazy but I think it will happen.

wow.
i'm not sure how to feel actually.
after the crap prequels, i may have lost my undying love for all things SW...
i would actually have to think long and hard about buying these considering that i have the boxed set already.

I dunno....I suspect I'll end up buying it (what with mind-tricks working on the weak, of which I am one)...but it genuinely feels like a bit of me dies each time Lucas does this.

I rate George Lucas....I think the good he contributes far outweighs the bad....I mean...I've never seen or heard him say that he thinks he's a great director for example.

But in the last 5-6 years he does seem to have made a habit of saying he's not going to do something - then far too soon after does a complete U-turn. What happened to the "Now I've done all 6 I can concentrate on smaller projects". It turned into 100 episodes confirmed for Star Wars TV Series is what.

I just want to respect the man today for more than his actions of yesterday, if that makes any kind of sense?

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"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades..."

Yup MW, I like your style. Though if the above is anything to go by, even the all 6 box-set is simply filler until the WTFT gets made (yup, thatd be the What The Fuck Trilogy)

Lets face it - we're all going to be posting thirty years from now (probably by thought alone by then) abut how episodes 13-15 should never have been made, ruined the careful work of the Dodecahedrolgy (Ummmm......Adam, help! What term should I have really used!)
and bodes very badly for the recently announced 9-picture deal to continue the franchise........

.....and yet, we'll all buy it.....and again, and again

"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades..."

I see absolutely no reason why you should be exempt from The Grand Fleecing, as history will come to regard this.

Go and buy this set (it will undoubtedley be good) and start saving for the next reinvention, which normally raises its ugly head in the run-in to Xmas, in the UK at least.

Last I heard the 6 volume set is closer to three than two years away....but you only have to read this thread to see how much stock you should put in that kind of info.....it could just as easily be announced 6 months from now.

Join the ride!

"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades..."

Seriously? I reckon neither - seems to me that LucasFilm only release on current technology once the Next Big Step is less than twelve months away from being commonplace in our homes. I mean how long has DVD been around as dominant to the outgoing VHS? Bloody years. What, the OT couldn't have been done any sooner? Yeh right. And don't give me that "I've been so busy working on the prequel trilogy" crap Lucas - it could have been done within 12-18 months as long ago as 2000 and you know it.

Then begins the 2-3 year period of going without, the denial, the pain - perhaps liberally peppered with some nonsense re-releases - improved sound, added scenes and the like. They just make us want it more.

We'll get our HD and Blue Rays once people have started replacing their TV's with holographic projectors or whatever else is coming next......and don't expect it to be any time soon neither.

As the man in black says himself:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades..."

Dude, whichever one you get, you'll be looking at another longingly within 12 months....its just the way it is......but, before I get too angry about finding Lucas' dick in my wallet everytime I open it....they are great great great films and I'll still be buying them years from now.......

"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades..."

the only way I'd want to see episodes 7-9 at this point is if he handed off writing duties to some of the EU writers who have helped shaped the time frame after ROTJ. Mostly because those who are even remotely interested in the EU know the basics, Vader has a clone that's "activated", Luke retarts the Jedi order, Han and Leia have kids and they're powerfull Jedis, Chewy gets killed, ect.

The other thing he needs to do is hand them off to other directors ala ESB, as it's largely considered the best of the films for a reason...

Dude, whichever one you get, you'll be looking at another longingly within 12 months....its just the way it is......but, before I get too angry about finding Lucas' dick in my wallet everytime I open it....they are great great great films and I'll still be buying them years from now.......